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Publishing This Week
Hello,

This week brings just eight books of note, but it's a strong lineup including Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel in a decade (which, incidentally, she wrote in Italian having learned the language as an adult, and then translated into English).

Also Winter in Sokcho, set in a border town between North and South Korea; and Mary Sharratt's Revelations, a novel about the mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, which the publisher catchily describes as a 15th century Eat, Pray, Love.

We will be reviewing all three in upcoming issues of our membership magazine, The BookBrowse Review.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher



This Week's New and Notable Books
There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
Whereabouts book jacket
Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri


On sale Apr 27 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.

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Winter in Sokcho book jacket
Winter in Sokcho
by Elisa Shua Dusapin


Debut Author
On sale Apr 27 from Open Letter
Genre: Novels. 160 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An exquisitely-crafted debut set in a border town between North and South Korea, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.

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Revelations book jacket
Revelations
by Mary Sharratt


On sale Apr 27 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history - Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich.

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White Magic book jacket
White Magic
by Elissa Washuta


On sale Apr 27 from Tin House Books
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists.

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Buses Are a Comin' book jacket
Buses Are a Comin' : Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by Charles Person


Debut Author
On sale Apr 27 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward - written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.

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Little and Often book jacket
Little and Often
by Trent Preszler


Debut Author
On sale Apr 27 from William Morrow
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Trent Preszler thought he was living the life he always wanted, with a job at a winery and a seaside Long Island home, when he was called back to the life he left behind. After years of estrangement, his cancer-stricken father had invited him to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. It would be the last time he saw his father alive.

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A Brief History of Earth book jacket
A Brief History of Earth : Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by Andrew H. Knoll


On sale Apr 27 from Custom House
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

For every Earth resident, an essential primer by Harvard's acclaimed geologist.

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The Haunting of Alma Fielding book jacket
The Haunting of Alma Fielding : A True Ghost Story
by Kate Summerscale


On sale Apr 27 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos.

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